Word: macdonald
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Congressman Torbert H. Macdonald '40 (Dem.-Mass.) and former Harvard football captain will present a bill to congress this month proposing federal aid for the U.S. Summer Olympic Team...
...Macdonald said yesterday that he was opposed to direct Government subsidization of athletics but he did feel that "Once our team is selected, it is our duty to pick up the tab for their living and training expenses until their departure...
...When an athlete makes the Olympic team," Macdonald said, "he is more than just an athlete. He becomes an ambassador of the country that selects him." Macdonald therefore proposes that the government subsidize athletic ambassadors as well as diplomatic envoys...
Oralists for the Gardner Club were Robert S. Jones and Curtis W. Poole. They were assisted in the brief by John R. Alger, William D. Gaillard III, Wallace M. Kain, D. Kenneth MacDonald, David H. Roenisch, and H. Simmons Tate...
Yeomen of the Guard is one of Sullivan's finest scores, certainly his most operatic, and it is performed all too seldom. The performance last night was fully worthy of the vehicle, and showed a skillful blend of enthusiasm and musical excellence. Bruce MacDonald was a charming Point, whose pleasantly intimate manner with the audience, especially in such numbers as "I've jest and Jibe," was thoroughly captivating. Playing a tricky "tragic clown" role, he managed to convey a bit of pathos without spoiling the essentially comic nature of the part...